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Several people I know already have sampled the food at Little Bangkok, the new Thai restaurant in East Grand Forks. All have had nothing but good to say about the eats. My stepdaughter, Amy, and a friend of hers are planning an outing there today. I can’t wait to go, too. But I may have to sample a taste of Thai at home first.

I came across a recipe forÂ Thai-Style Turkey Curry while looking for leftover recipes. We have an ice-cream bucket of turkey leftovers from our Thanksgiving Day dinner, as well as some squash, which also is called for in the recipe.

Thanksgiving Day leftovers usually don’t present a problem to us, since weâ€™re always fixing new dishes with what we didn’t eat for supper the previous night. Weâ€™ve made a shepherd’s pie-type dish with our leftovers, thrown the turkey carcass in a kettle for soup and, of course, always have enjoyed sandwiches.

This morning, while watching the “Today” show on the TV at the gym, I saw a leftover turkey recipe that almost had me drooling. It was for a baked pasta gratin. I found the recipe on the NBC website, and it definitely figures into my plans.

Here’s that recipe, along with the one for Thai curry, just in case you’re in a quandary with what to do with your leftovers. The nice thing about both recipes is that they can be on the table in less than an hour.

If you hosted Thanksgiving Day dinner as we did, it’s inevitable there are some leftovers lurking in the refrigerator, including turkey.

In the past, we’ve always used some of the turkey for sandwiches. Sometimes, if there was enough gravy leftover, it was the hot variety, with a little stuffing, of course. (Plain old turkey sandwiches can be a little bland.)

And I can’t forget turkey soup. The carcass is perfect for this. This year, I sent the carcass home with Uncle Curt and Aunt Harriet, so soup isn’t an option.

However, a tip from chef Ryan Scott, former cheftestant of Bravo TV’s Top Chef, has me thinking about something I’ve never tried — turkey sloppy joes, a twist on a family favorite that’s perfect for kicking back and checking out the weekend’s football games. And if you have some leftover dinner rolls from the Thanksgiving meal, they also make great sliders.